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A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2019
Only the Animals posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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MOVIE2019 1h 57m FRA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Its tightly controlled, shifting testimony structure and escalating web of secrets echo Only the Animals’ pleasure in gradually exposing how separate lives intersect around a crime.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

When a woman disappears after a snowstorm, her car is found on a desolate road and the police have nothing to go on. Meanwhile five individuals, who are all connected with the woman's disappearance, struggle to contain their own secrets as the investigation deepens.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Denis Ménochet

Denis Ménochet

Michel Farange

Laure Calamy

Laure Calamy

Alice Farange

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Evelyne Ducat

Damien Bonnard

Joseph Bonnefille

Bastien Bouillon

Bastien Bouillon

Gendarme Cédric Vigier

Guy Roger N'drin

Armand

Nadia Tereszkiewicz

Nadia Tereszkiewicz

Marion

Marie Victorie Amie

Brigitte